New York City’s First Police Body Cameras Take to Streets

[Wendell]

Officials hope the yearlong pilot program in America’s largest city will establish whether wearing the cameras improves officers’ interactions with the public. Mr. de Blasio has pledged to have all 23,000 of the city’s patrol officers wearing cameras by 2019. “This is the first day of the era of body-worn cameras,” the mayor said on Thursday. “And that means we are on a pathway to transparency and accountability that (will) benefit everyone.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/n...y-cameras.html

[Jason M]

Officials hope the yearlong pilot program in America’s largest city will establish whether wearing the cameras improves officers’ interactions with the public. Mr. de Blasio has pledged to have all 23,000 of the city’s patrol officers wearing cameras by 2019. “This is the first day of the era of body-worn cameras,” the mayor said on Thursday. “And that means we are on a pathway to transparency and accountability that (will) benefit everyone.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/n...y-cameras.html

Does that mean that he, his staff, and city council will be wearing them in the future?

[voodoo_man]

Does that mean that he, his staff, and city council will be wearing them in the future?

No no no, you got that wrong, the rules only apply to everyone else, the brass is always excused from anything the plebs have to endure.